Re: [BUG] fractional bin sizes do not work in some locales (e.g., de_DE.UTF-8)

[Tim Rice]

Hey Erik,

> I use the following locale setting all the time:
>
>    $ locale
>    LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>    LANGUAGE=
>    LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
>    LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8
>    LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8
>    LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
>    LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8
>    LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
>    LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8
>    LC_NAME=de_DE.UTF-8
>    LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8
>    LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8
>    LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8
>    LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE.UTF-8
>    LC_ALL=
>
> It might be important that LC_ALL is not set.

Aha, unsetting LC_ALL helped me see what you mean. Now LC_NUMERIC works as 
expected. In my bash_profile I set LC_ALL, LANG and LANGUAGE to en_AU.UTF-8.


> I think this needs a way to check whether the locale is actually
> available.  IIRC GNU Coreutils has locale-specific tests that do check
> if the needed locale is available and if not skips the test.  IIRC one
> of their tests uses a locale I did not have installed and the test
> was skipped.

Good tip, I will check coreutils.


> I am not sure about the significance of the different spellings, both
> de_DE.UTF-8 and de_DE.utf8 (and en_US.UTF-8 / en_US.utf8) work for me.

Yeah, I don't think it matters. I just went with what `locale -a` showed me; 
the results seem to be the same.


> I'll try to look into this during the weekend, I am going to sleep now.

No worries, sleep well.

~ Tim